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Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New.

Couverture souple. Zustand: Bon. in 8°, de 56pp.2ff., 15 ill. int., et 1 plan de l'hôpital dépl. in fine, broché, couv. légèr. défraichie. Envoi de Fossoyeux.

Zustand: New.

Zustand: New.

Zustand: New.

Couverture rigide. Zustand: Bon. 664 pages ; 12,5 x 19,5 x 3 cm ; 630 gr. Administration Hospitalière Notions d'Anatomie Notions de Physiologie Soins de Médecine Soins de Chirurgie Soins de Grossesse Soins d'Accouchement Puériculture Notions d'Hygiène Médicaments.

First French Edition. Octavo. 20cm. Publisher's original cream card wraps titled in red and black to spine and front wrap, with a black and white photographic image of a young woman in a state of trance. 155pp + [3pp] ads. Some light soiling of the cream wraps, toning to spine panel, strong and presentable, a very good copy with some grubbyness. Internally clean, although the paper stock was quite cheap and has uniformly toned. Almost completely unopened. Photographic illustrations and and technical diagrams throughout. Völgyesi, a Hungarian psychotherapist and hypnotist apparently discovered his ability to hypnotize both people and animals at the age of 17, and during WW1 when faced with a lack of anaesthetic he provided hypnotic analgesia to patients during operations. A significant part of his hypnotic skill however was directed not at human beings, but at animals, with Volgyesi reputedly being able to put lions and tigers into a trance state, and to have calmed a crocodile using only his powers of suggestion. He ran a particularly successful clinic in Budapest, and possibly most interestingly was employed freelance by the Hungarian authorities in order to analyse and "cure" the mental illnesses of criminals in an effort to reduce recidivism. This work expounds on many of Vogyesi's theories surrounding hypnotic curative methods, and also has the added bonus of photographic images of the good doctor hypnotising lion cubs.…